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David, thanks for the references; I particularly enjoyed the piece value
discussions. [I read the Piecelopedia comments on the camel, also.] Legler
also increases power on the board by about 1/6, roughly. I suspect most of
us who care or think about this would agree that that's too much power
for a serious and subtle game. Bash, smash and crash is a different story;
many of us like a whole pile of high-powered pieces in a shoot-em-up style
game for fun, but I doubt many of us believe this is the way chess is
going in the future. 

George and Gary have proposed similar pieces, lesser versions of the BN
and RN. George has lamed the knight component, offering a rook-mao and a
bishop-moa [if I got the names right]. Gary has offered functionally all
but identical pieces, with the rook-ferz and the bishop-wazir. 

This 'seems' to be a trend. I think we have one answer to the way chess
is going. Chessplayers want to 'upgun'. Are there other realistic
possibilities, or do we all trade in our .38s for .45s and have done with
it?